Rating:  Summary: This is a great murdermystery Review: Well, well, Terry Pratchett has written a murder mystery. Except the murders continue and they know their ultimate target. The Patrician. This is a really intelligent novel. As always, Terry raises the story in a rising crescendo to the climax in the end to our pure enjoyment. (And his bank-account, of course)
Rating:  Summary: Excellent, Banana, Fishcake, Tribble, Aardvark. Review: Many people try but none can compete. Pratchett is simply the best, and the Guards novels are my favourites out of his wacky discworld. Having read all of Pratchett's books and watched the video versions, (i.e. Wyrd Sisters, Soul Music, Truckers & Johnny and the Dead) I am waiting in anticipation for one of the more mature books (Like Good Omens - pour example P.s.I learnt french from DellBoy Trotter) to be made into a film. ONLY don't trust any Hollywood (or other Americans) to do it, with the revival of the British Film Industry - go on give them a go. they understand humour better. Back to the book, I hope one of the Guards books becomes a cartoon soon, as it needs to go on my must-by list.
Rating:  Summary: Pratchett strikes again - better than ever Review: This bok is not quite as gag-driven as Soul Music - bieng more on a phisisophical note - but it is excelent. The Watch returns, with all our old favorites (Vimes, Carrot, Angua, and so on) as weel as Cherrry Littlebottom, a dwarf who is daring and newfangled enough . .that she will actually wear earrings and a skirt. Lord Vetinari does not dissapoint, especially in his figuring out who is poisining him before anyone else (but letting Vimes figure it out independantly anyway.)
Rating:  Summary: PRATCHETT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER Review: Golems, the City Watch, and a whole lot of rampant silliness. In this 19th Discworld novel Pratchett once again produces a hilarious tale. Highly recommended !!!!!
Rating:  Summary: He just keeps getting better !! Review: This is the best "Guards" book yet. Terry Pratchett just keeps on getting better. This is book number 19 in the disc-world series (yes it is count them). It amazes me that Terry Pratchett just keeps on pumping the books out with no decline in the quailty or laughs. a great book especially for readers of TP. If you are considering reading this book as your first Disc-World book STOP. start from the being (The colour of Magic)and enjoy the ride.
Rating:  Summary: A Subtle Discworld - Grand Silliness and Quiet Reflections Review: This book is a typical discworld in plot - insane, bizarre, silly, the works. But what I really like is how Pratchett is filling out his world and the characters. They are no longer quite is slick and one dimensional as in the earliest novels. You get a good understanding of how life is lived in Ankh-Morpork, how Carrot affects everyone around him, the subtlies of Vimes - all of it. But don't worry, the fun is still there. Can you actually imagine a female dwarf daring to be female (make-up, clothes, et al)? Or the obtusely literal-minded citizens of Ankh-Morpork (crests must be designed from life)?
Enjoy this book, but be cautious. If you don't particularly like reflecting on the serious as well as the silliness, you won't enjoy this book as much as some of the other Discworld novels.
Rating:  Summary: hilarious and thoughtful, as are all of pratchetts books Review: Pratchett delivered again. Feet of Clay is as entertaining as all the discworld books and deals with issues of racial and social equality in ways that only fantasy and humor are capable of achieving. My only regret concerning Terry Pratchett is how poorly he is marketed in the U.S. He deserves much more attention than he commonly gets. I always enjoyed Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and I put Pratchett head and shoulders above him.
Rating:  Summary: You missed the old Pratchett? Buy this, feel home again! Review: If you discovered the Discworld like I did (reading <Guards, Guards>) you will have this stuff as you read this, anyway.
If you are torn between Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Robert Sheckley, J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert Asprin, WHAT KEPT YOU SO LONG. This is definitely a MUST HAVE. What are you waiting for?
If you have been reading Discworlds novels before, don't waste your time with my opinion, just go get it!
This is definitely one of the best books P. ever did. It's shrewed, witty, ranges from slapstick to drama and back (often through misterious ways), in a nutshell, it's a Pratchett. I can't wait to see the movie (just kiddin', Terry;-))
Rating:  Summary: A new Discworld book that lives up to the series. Review: If you're like me, and voraciously read the great British authour Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels as soon as you see them on the shelves of the local bookstore, then there is a genuine cosmic force that will compell you to get this one and nothing I can say will make any difference.
But lately, over the last few entries into the series, that certain colour of magic has been missing from them, which made the early works so great to read. But not to worry...Pratchett is definately in top form with this one, which marks the always hilarious return of the Anhk-Morepork City Watch, headed by 'Sir' Samuel Vimes.
Along with the already well fleshed-out main cast of Watchmen including Corp. Carrot, Angua, Nobbs, Detritus and Fred Colon, we have some new characters, all who jump off the page with Pratchett's expert handling. Even though this is a comic view of fantasy, sort of a Douglas Adams by way of Tolkien, there might be no better weaver of plot and character than Mr. Pratchett.
As usual, the much put-upon metropolis of Ankh-Morepork is in grave peril, this time by a rampaging Golem, out of control and looking for blood. Things are complicated by another crisis as the slow poisoning of the Patrician has Vimes retracing the path of his childhood.
So, as we've come to expect from our previous travels across the Discworld, Pratchett throws in everything but the kitchen sink, somehow managing to stray off in many directions but always keeping a complicated plot, engaging characters, vivid location and a continuing sense of wonder with this world all in the air at the same time.
Trust me. Buy this book. It's worth any price. And that's cuttin' me own throat!
Rating:  Summary: A small gem... Review: The third city-watch novel. The eighteenth Discworld novel. The second intrigue in Discworld after the opera ghost in Masquerade.
Terry Pratchett's Feet of Clay, with an insight
into the life problems of Vimes, the bodily odours
of Nobby and the unrevealled heritage of Carrot
combines Pratchett's unique play with words and
an immensely intriquing scenario of murder mystery
to result in a small gem. If you were new in
Discworld I would not suggest "The color of magic". I would definitely go for "Feet of Clay".
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